Linux

Hi,
I have linux fedora 4 ver., 2.6 kernal. And qmail & mysql & samba servers are already configured on this server.

When I try to install any package like squidguard ,dansguardian,webmin,rsnapshots with command rpm -ivh . It is giving error as “Floating point exception"

Snap View is as belows :

[root@linux ~]# rpm -ivh squidguard-1.2.0-2.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm rpm -ivh squidguard-1.2.0-2.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm
Floating point exception
[root@linux ~]# squidguard-1.2.0-2.2.fc4.rf.i386(2).rpmwebmin-1.270-1.fc4.rf.noarch.rpm
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `2'
[root@linux ~]# rsnapshot-1.3.0-1.noarch.rpm
-bash: rsnapshot-1.3.0-1.noarch.rpm: command not found
[root@linux ~]# pygtk2-libglade-2.6.0-2.i386.rpm
-bash: pygtk2-libglade-2.6.0-2.i386.rpm: command not found
[root@linux ~]# rpm -iv pygtk2-libglade-2.6.0-2.i386.rpm
Floating point exception
[root@linux ~]# rpm -iv rsnapshot-1.3.0-1.noarch.rpm
Floating point exception
[root@linux ~]# rpm -iv squidguard-1.2.0-2.2.fc4.rf.i3
sat.sh
sayH
showfile
squidguard-1.2.0-2.2.fc4.rf.i386(2).rpm
[root@linux ~]# rpm -iv squidguard-1.2.0-2.2.fc4.rf.i386\(2\).rpm
Floating point exception
[root@linux ~]# yum install samba
Floating point exception
[root@linux ~]# uname -r
2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
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Kindly advise.

Regards,

Sagar

Hi

I have the exact same problem, whenever I use the RPM command I get a Floating point exception error. (even if I do rpm --help) Did you ever manage to sort this?

I have googled for about 3 hours but can not find anything on why this happens or how to fix it?

Any help would be appreciated.

I have the same problem, but when trying to run MySQL and some various other apps. The box with the problem has Plesk installed, but it was running fine until yesterday. Any ideas from anyone would be most appreciated

I also have this problem. CentOS 5.2 - any rpm command might cause floating point error. It seems to be somehow time related. Running ntpdate and then trying again seems to help.